BBC Radio 4 Transmission Date Tuesday 13th November 2018, 11.30am – Repeated Monday 18th March 2019 at 4pm on BBC Radio 4 Presented by Peter Shenai Produced by Matthew Teller and Adam Fowler People need stories – but climate change is remote from us. How can we make climate change human? Where’s the story in atmospheric…
Fifty years after the Biafran war, Afua Hirsch scrutinises the explosion of news coverage with its defining images of hungry black children, revealing how messages were manipulated and a particular idea of ‘Africa’ fixed in public imagination. It changed the way aid agencies work and how Britain saw the world. Presented by Afua…
Anglo-Spanish artist Sonia Boué charts an artistic journey that sees her retracing (in reverse) the exile of her father José María Garcia Lora, upon leaving Spain during the Civil War. Partly in response to the current unrest in Catalonia we end up in Barcelona, a seminal place of memory for Sonia and whose fall in…
Thank you….. to everyone who got in touch about our series, Unforgettable on BBC Radio 4. “One of the most original and exciting ideas I’ve heard. Thank you Overtone” “Unforgettable. Pace, tone and the spaces in between. Beautiful” “Brilliant, & yes, #Unforgettable. Can’t wait 4 more”
Thank you to everybody who emailed such positive comments about our concert of music commissioned by Samuel Pepys. “Excellent!”, “Wonderfully performed.” , “Fascinating”, “Absolutely superb.” Just some of the messages in our inbox the morning after. Listen here to one of the pieces recorded on the night …
We are delighted to announce a new exciting development for Overtone Productions. As part of our upcoming programme for BBC Radio 4, we are putting on a concert of music written for Samuel Pepys by composer Cesare Morelli, performed again for the first time since Pepys would have played and sung it nearly 300…
Producer Adam Fowler and Academic Andrey Levitskiy are in Russia right now, recording a programme about religion during the Russian Revolution for BBC World Service. Watch out for A New Church for the Red State, presented by former BBC Moscow correspondent and Religious Affairs correspondent, Caroline Wyatt. The programme will be broadcast in 2017 around the…
These are exciting times for Overtone. Not only are we expanding and developing new areas of audio productiion, we are also working on fantastic new programmes. We have implemented a new section under our Programmes page, called Upcoming Programmes, where you can, from now on, have a sneak preview of what’s cooking at the Overtone headquarters. To name…
Overtone is delighted to welcome our new member of staff, the hugely talented and multifaceted, Philippa Geering. Philippa will be making documentaries for Overtone as well as taking a leading role in developing other areas of audio production and training. When she is not spending three days a week making Overtone even more marvellous, she…
